Girl Scouts Bake Up Plan To Tackle Cookie Worries

By

Julie Jargon

May 24, 2011 3:19 p.m. ET

The two Michigan teens campaigning to replace palm oil in Girl Scout cookies are a step closer to a solution.

During a two-hour meeting Tuesday morning at Girl Scouts of the USA headquarters in New York City, scout officials agreed to research palm oil to determine if they can get more of the ingredient from rain forests that haven't been cleared for palm oil plantations, or if they can replace it with something else.